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GAZA CITY, Gaza — A leader of the Palestinian militant group that captured the Israeli soldier swapped last week for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners said Saturday that the soldier was treated well during his captivity.
Zuhair Al-Qaisi of the Popular Resistance Committees said Gilad Schalit was given sufficient food and allowed to watch Hebrew-language TV.
Schalit was notably gaunt, pale and exhausted when he was freed. His father, Noam Schalit, said his son “endured harsh things” in his more than five years of captivity in Gaza.
Al-Qaisi dismissed the accusations, saying Schalit was provided food that “fits him as a Jew,” by which he appeared to mean kosher food.
